Traffic fatalities related to alcohol were increasing <span> factors indicated that government regulation of alcohol consumption was needed.</span>
Congress was given the sole power to deal with foreign countries, to settle disputes between the states, to decide admiralty cases (those involving ships at sea) to declare war, and to make peace. It could also coin money, run the postal service, establish weights and measurement and trade with the Indians outside of the states. It could borrow money and request each state to contribute money in proportion to the value of the property of the state. Congress could only request financial support from the states but if a state refused to help there was nothing the congress could do.
The Fourteenth Amendment assured that anyone who was born in the United States, man or woman, white or black, was to be considered a citizen of the country.
However, it also included the word male in the document when it comes to voting, making it clear that woman were not given equal rights. The fifteenth Amendment made sure that no men, again, nothing about women, would be denied the right to vote because of his race.
Susan B. Anthony objected the new law immediately. It was her opinion that the new law just created a new challenge for the female activists.
Lucy Stone, on the other hand, believed that the Amendments were an advance anyways and she was ok with the law, considering that she also believed that it would not take much longer for woman to have the right to vote.
Many women also carried out home based work such as finishing garments and shoes for factories, laundry or preparation of snacks to sell in the market or streets
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